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...Jones average sags below 8000, and no one understands how to react to the color-coded terror alerts. Now we're told there is an urgent need to take military action against Iraq and that anyone who questions this is un-American. Frustrating? You bet! SCOTT KOEHNK Key Biscayne, Fla...
CONVICTION OVERTURNED. Against ALEX KING, 13, and his brother DEREK, 14, in the beating death of their father last November; in Pensacola, Fla. The judge ruled that the boys' right to due process was denied because of the prosecution's "unusual and bizarre" decision to try another man for the same killing prior to their highly publicized trial. That defendant was acquitted...
...outside contractors include Edison, based in New York City and the largest of the companies that manage public schools as a business; Victory Schools, a much smaller New York City firm with schools in that city aswell as in Baltimore, Md.; and the Chancellor Beacon Academies of Coconut Grove, Fla., which operates charter schools and private day schools around the country. Two nonprofit organizations were also given schools to run, and both Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania will provide extensive services atothers. In addition, the panel hired Paul Vallas,who oversaw major reforms in Chicago's schools...
EXECUTED. AILEEN WUORNOS, 46, hitchhiking prostitute who murdered seven men along Florida's highways in 1989 and 1990; by lethal injection; in Starke, Fla. The 10th woman executed in the U.S. since the resumption of capital punishment in 1976, Wuornos halted all appeals after a decade in prison, saying, "If I have to spend life in prison, I will kill. I will kill again...
Eileen J. Southern, the first black female professor at Harvard, died last Sunday in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla...